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CVE-2025-39979
published 2025-10-15

CVE-2025-39979: In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: fs, fix UAF in flow counter release Fix a kernel trace [1] caused by releasing an…

PriorityP420medium7.6
EPSS
0.17%
6.9th percentile
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/mlx5: fs, fix UAF in flow counter release Fix a kernel trace [1] caused by releasing an HWS action of a local flow counter in mlx5_cmd_hws_delete_fte(), where the HWS action refcount and mutex were not initialized and the counter struct could already be freed when deleting the rule. Fix it by adding the missing initializations and adding refcount for the local flow counter struct. [1] Kernel log: Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x34/0x48 mlx5_fs_put_hws_action.part.0.cold+0x21/0x94 [mlx5_core] mlx5_fc_put_hws_action+0x96/0xad [mlx5_core] mlx5_fs_destroy_fs_actions+0x8b/0x152 [mlx5_core] mlx5_cmd_hws_delete_fte+0x5a/0xa0 [mlx5_core] del_hw_fte+0x1ce/0x260 [mlx5_core] mlx5_del_flow_rules+0x12d/0x240 [mlx5_core] ? ttwu_queue_wakelist+0xf4/0x110 mlx5_ib_destroy_flow+0x103/0x1b0 [mlx5_ib] uverbs_free_flow+0x20/0x50 [ib_uverbs] destroy_hw_idr_uobject+0x1b/0x50 [ib_uverbs] uverbs_destroy_uobject+0x34/0x1a0 [ib_uverbs] uobj_destroy+0x3c/0x80 [ib_uverbs] ib_uverbs_run_method+0x23e/0x360 [ib_uverbs] ? uverbs_finalize_object+0x60/0x60 [ib_uverbs] ib_uverbs_cmd_verbs+0x14f/0x2c0 [ib_uverbs] ? do_tty_write+0x1a9/0x270 ? file_tty_write.constprop.0+0x98/0xc0 ? new_sync_write+0xfc/0x190 ib_uverbs_ioctl+0xd7/0x160 [ib_uverbs] __x64_sys_ioctl+0x87/0xc0 do_syscall_64+0x59/0x90

Affected

6 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianlinux< linux 6.16.10-1 (forky)linux 6.16.10-1 (forky)
linuxlinux
linuxlinux>= b581f4266928d3b5d1bbe711e39623d9a1696091 < 3c77f6d244188c3fb11f6aec40bbfe884f1803b53c77f6d244188c3fb11f6aec40bbfe884f1803b5
linuxlinux>= b581f4266928d3b5d1bbe711e39623d9a1696091 < 6043819e707cefb1c9e59d6e431dcfa735c4f9756043819e707cefb1c9e59d6e431dcfa735c4f975
linuxlinux_kernel>= 0 < 6.16.10-16.16.10-1
linuxlinux_kernel>= 6.14.0 < 6.16.106.16.10
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